Red Hat announces GFS

PSUdaemon writes "Over at Kernel Trap they have an announcment that Red Hat has released GFS under the GPL and offer it through RHN. This could potentially be a very substantial offering from Red Hat."

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Free for $2,200?

[RKBA]

Then why does the GFS link say that it costs $2,200?

Re:executive summary?

[gnu-generation-one]

"GFS (Global File System) is a cluster file system.. is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications."

So is this useful for clusters (as the name implies), or will the $1000 per computer cost of RHEL prevent it from being used in any actual clusters?

$2,200! Requires RHE.

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

From Red Hat...

Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file system and volume manager... Red Hat GFS is tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux... $2,200

I see their pricing is right up there with Microsoft, but at least they probably have better licensing terms (NOTE: It says it's "open source", it doesn't say anything about GPL). Also, it's "tightly integrated" with RH Enterprise, so you'll have to buy that too...